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In 2002 Jakub Berdych founded the shop and design studio Qubus to create a space for presenting Czech conceptual design. The Qubus design shop was historically the first such facility in the Czech Republic.
Qubus concentrates mainly on the development and production of glass and porcelain collections, and also the development of minor interior realizations and installations.
We take the inspiration for our work from everyday life. We try to find new meanings in the common things that surround us. Design is a craft, which, as far as we are concerned, becomes art, and more than merely a product.
Jakub: “I’m a nit-picker and I must take things to their conclusion. I like to go against the flow and against convention. I collect anything I come across, anything strange, anything different. I can find inspiration in polystyrene extrusions… There are cities in them, architecture and a particular kind of urbanism.”
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Jakub: “One of the reasons why Qubus studio is in the Old Town is that I grew up here. So the atmosphere of peace and silence of the Old Town is always inspirational for me. Where and when we grow up is what defines us.”
It may seem that we tend to overlook the function in our products because of our conceptual approach to work; however, it is the first thing that we consider.
We try for ourselves what will succeed and what will fail. The key factor in our work is to believe that we are doing something good and valuable. Without this, it would never be possible to move forward and achieve something.
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It is a coming together of people, money, location. And it is about meeting the right person at the right time.
For sure, design is work, but it is also a form of thinking that comes from the way we see the world around us and how we are able to absorb it. All of these factors are imprinted on our work. In order to produce, it is always important to combine experience and talent.
Objects usually reflect the state of the author’s soul. Behind every object lies the one who has created it.
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Animal: dog
Place: Stockholm
Restaurant: Lokál
Artist: Wim Delvoye
Movie: Bullitt
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The National
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QUBUS DESIGN STUDIO & SHOP
Rámová 3
110 00 Praha 1
Czech Republic
T: +420 775 708 090
T: +420 222 313 151
opening hours
Mon-Sat: 11.00 – 19.00
Sun: closed
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Very generously conceived stop, the optical illusion of the roof evokes something above… The shape of Bača hat.
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Polystyrene where the filling = graffiti… Annotated with graffiti tags.
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Gluing coincidence, malfunction, something like the “A je to” series.
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A moment of inspiration, connecting the incompatible with a new, other, functional thing – originally pieces of carpet under a swimming pool.
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Photo of architecture from the “right” angle, inspiration, delusion, UFO, a giant football.
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Installation by Jakub Berdych in DOX by Qubus, introduction of Laldro brand, Parrot Party collection in DB2010.
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Inspiration source, using the old and useless – making the new and useful and connecting it with its surroundings.
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An absurd water supply… And it was a lot of work!
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A story of a night walk and a black poodle who peed and thus signed him name.
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The cover of a street lamp served as a flowerbed, but here it looks like a sarcophagus.
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Some repairs don’t work out.
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This is an inspiration, an absurdity, a joke. The construction took a lot of time. It is really detailed, and then the pool and then the whole picture with the accommodation sign… What else is there to say!
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It is an architectonic realization where the shape of the roof has been used on the fence – detail, nice, smart… Not everybody sees it.
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Is a glassblower’s instrument. Glassblowers have it in their hands every day and see nothing else in it but a tool for their work, here is an armiger, a mask of a knight.
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A new story unfolds when unrelated things appear next to each other.
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We work with the concept of revealing the fundamental nature of everyday objects and situations.
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We enjoy redesigning and we like to approach work with humour.
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The biggest inspiration for us is from everyday life.
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An inspiration to us may be ”do it yourself” ideas, but also the bizarre combinations of subjects with different meanings and characteristics that seem to only randomly connect.
